Have you been told that your child is being prepared for level 6 papers? If so, what kind of work is being set in class and for homework? And if your school uses any maths schemes which part of which scheme is your child on?

I'm in the situation where I'm being told my child is being prepared for primary level 6 but the things she tells me about and the little bits of homework that come home are very sad offerings of level 4/low to medium level 5 most of the time I would have said. She's bored to tears.

I'd definitely recommend the schofield and sims mental maths books for good exercise and challenging work. And the 'big brainz' times attack game, google it, its free and works like a tombraider platform game

Primary maths challenge papers are excellent preparation for this test as they include a large amount of reasoning. Then ensure that coordinates in four quadrants have been covered, some basic algebra, formulae, isometric drawing/3D visualisation, line graphs, probability, mean and volume.

There is possibly more, but that seems to cover the topics from the last few years.

Thank you - that tallies with my thoughts too. Do you have any wise words on how I can get school to listen .... really what they are providing is way short of the mark and boring my DD to tears most of the time. It's the same for the whole top group I would think.

Have you been told that your child is being prepared for level 6 papers? ... I'm in the situation where I'm being told my child is being prepared for primary level 6 but the things she tells me about and the little bits of homework that come home are very sad offerings of level 4/low to medium level 5 most of the time I would have said. She's bored to tears.

Not sure if the curriculum has changed, but here are the guidelines set by the government last year, with sample papers, etc. This webpage contains all the information the school is given on the subject, or so my child's Yr6 teacher told me at the time.

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